JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Job alert --and a really fine one too! Chair in Intellectual History at one of Europe's finest academic institutions, the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence, so in Machiavelli's town! Have a look: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

CFP for #RenSA2027 - Rethinking Renaissance Women www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... Deadline: July 22 While not focused on women artists per se, the panel seeks content on the gendered moral frameworks that shaped printmaking, particularly Northern European networks. @rsaorg.bsky.social

Thüringen roemt zichzelf als Freistaat, maar kampt sinds de eenwording met een leegloop in landelijke gebieden. De AfD beleeft daar een opkomst. Heeft de partij wat te bieden? Hoe haal je onderwijzers, dokters, verplegers naar Thüringen? Met de AfD? Nee, integendeel. Thüringen kijkt in de afgrond.

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Een spannend weekend in Erfurt, waar massale demonstraties zijn aangekondigd tegen de AfD, de populairste partij van dit bondsland. Een eerste verslag. chrisaalberts.nl/2026/07/03/i...

‘In Africa, Augustine had felt very Roman. In Italy, he was made to feel very African. His accent was sneered at; he regretted those telltale African vowels.’ Christopher Kelly on St Augustine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Christopher Kelly · Unpleasant Medicine: Augustine in Africa

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Historische sensatie! In 2023 stuitte ik op een volstrekt onbekend schilderij. Het bleek te gaan om een voorstelling van de Staten-Generaal en een verbeelding van het ontstaan van Nederland als soevereine staat. Lees nu het volledige verhaal in Early Modern Low Countries. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

What place has religion in politics? Join us as Prof Mark Goldie reconsiders the thought of John Locke, challenging familiar assumptions about religion, toleration, and public life. 17:00 Wed 10th June Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre Followed by a drinks reception. Registration: khc.web.ox.ac.uk

The past, present and future of 'liberty as independence': two intense and thoughtful days of European perspectives in Fiesole: with 'in between' Kantians, feminists, republican marxists, abolitionists, enlightened peacemakers, and, of course, Machiavelli and his readers-- including these ones!

#CFP The Grotiana Foundation & the University of Zürich are organising a conference on Hugo Grotius for June 2027. Those interested to present a paper, please send in an abstract and CV to the conveners Silke-Petra Bergjan (bergjan@theol.uzh.ch) and Marc de Wilde (m.dewilde@uva.nl) by 1 June 2026

Portrait of Maria Henrietta Stuart, Princess Royal & Princess of Orange-Nassau, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Anthony van Dyck, 1641 (Rijksmuseum)

How Frederick the Great and George Washington embody the competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianism. George Washington and Frederick the Great: Parallel Lives by Jürgen Overhoff is now available (26 May UK pub). Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

Er zijn slechtere plaatsen om je stem uit te brengen. De Grote Kerk in Dordrecht!

🪦Décès de Jacques Revel (1942-2026) ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?270 🕴️Directeur d'études à l' @ehess.fr au @crh.ehess.fr #GEHM (Groupe d'études sur les historiographies modernes) Toutes nos condoléances à la famille, proches et ami.e.s Hommage du Président Romain Huret ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...

Vacature doctoraatsproject (4 jaar)! www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

Interior of the Dominican church in Antwerp, Pieter Neefs, 1636. On the left wall hangs a series of large paintings by, among others, Rubens, Van Balen, Teniers, Jordaens and Caravaggio (Rijksmuseum) Counter-reformation in one painting.

It was a privilege to bring the finest parts of Dutch culture to #Göttingen and talk with so many of our over 600 visitors about 'Het Land van #Rembrandt', Rembrandts art and civilisation, in the intimate setting of the Göttingen Verlag der Kunst. The big hit: Rembrandts engraving of Adam and Eve!

These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.

📆20-21 Feb📣EMoDiR at #RSA2026 : "The Devil and Dissent: Early Modern Perspectives"👹 I. “Philosophy and Theology of Evil” III “Politics of Demonization” IV. “Living with Demons” (co-organized with Jan Michielsen) Join us and hear our fantastic speakers! #EarlyModern #Devil 👇

Wir trauern um unseren Autor Cees Nooteboom, der gestern, am 11. Februar 2026, im Alter von 92 Jahren verstorben ist.

Zum Tod von Cees Nooteboom. Trauermeldung auf suhrkamp.de

Cees Nooteboom ist am 11. Februar 2026 im Alter von 92 Jahren auf Menorca verstorben.

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Sir Thomas More and his family. Fantastic study for (alas!) now lost painting by Hans Holbein. So unusual as a family portrait, but then, this family was unusual too. Today is Thomas More's day.

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS

Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia - SSD PHIL-02/B - GSD 11/PHIL-02- Cod. Pica incarichipd202...

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We're getting ready to launch - making sure we've got testing, observability and backups all in good order. It's taking a smidgen longer than we hoped but first invites will arrive on the first week of February and roll out throughout the month. Thank you for your patience 🙏

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 9mo ago

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet

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Is het zo erg? 1. Met studenten in seminar over Spinoza, Bayle en Locke met AI geëxperimenteerd. AI voor deze thematiek dramatisch slecht. Veel onzin, veel goedkoop geleuter. 2. Mondelinge examens! Meer dan ooit een goede vorm voor toetsing van kennis en kritisch inzicht. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Wat zijn scripties waard, nu AI meeschrijft? ‘Je weet niet meer wat je aan het beoordelen bent, de student of de chatbot’

AI: ChatGPT en andere generatieve AI-systemen hebben razendsnel hun weg gevonden in het hoger onderwijs. Universiteiten en hogescholen worstelen met de gevolgen: hoe valt fraude nog aan te tonen, en w...

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“This article urges a fresh view on [AI large language model] hallucinations by arguing that, rather than being errors in any conventional sense, they are evidence of a probabilistic system incapable of dealing with questions of knowledge.”

Wat ontbreekt: op financieel-economisch terrein zet de coalitie rond Meloni het oude Berlusconi beleid voort en doet dus...niets. De leegloop gaat gewoon verder. Ook daardoor kan de fragiele coalitie, met de wispelturige Salvini en de bejaarde Tajani, voortdobberen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Giorgia Meloni’s conservatieve pragmatisme scoort in Europa

Radicaal-rechts in Italië: De Italiaanse premier Meloni blikt terug op een sterk politiek jaar. Haar strenge migratiebeleid is inmiddels gangbaar in Europa en in december werd ze de „kingmaker” genoem...

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Christmas lights have come to the cathedral of Pistoia and the medieval civic buildings of the central square

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

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Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!